No, it's not just you — people really are, per a number of surveys, way less intelligent than they used to be.
  • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
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    3 days ago

    If your community is poorly connected, help out! Host a block party, set up a book swap, there’s all kinds of options. That’s a big focus of our local 50501 community in Michigan: restoring the bonds that have been worn away over the years by capitalists.

    I strongly disagree with the majority of your last post though. It sounds like you’re determined to close your eyes and ears to the people around you

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      11·
      1 day ago

      No, I’m not determined on anything you projecting fool, I am saying that based on your definitions of community and my lived experience, it is others who are determined to close their eyes and ears from me and from each other.

      And no, I’m not gonna go up to literal strangers that have never spoken to me or each other ever nor shown any signs of wanting to do so and tell them about hosting some sort of unsanctioned “party” because some guy said this will be good, or something, on the internet - a place where no one lies.

      This doesn’t make me determined to “close my eyes and ears to those around” me, not acting based on the unprovable words of one guy, referencing something I only ever hear about on the internet about something that suspiciously doesn’t seem to leave any traces of existing IRL makes me fucking sane.

      So either we live in completely different realities, which yeah - I don’t live in America, or you are lying, or I am lying, or we’re not understanding each other.

      Last time a different guy on the internet tried to explain this and they just kept claiming they built a local community with their neighbours, skipping over how they managed to even get along, he said he would show up to their neighbours to mow their lawn and that that is going to accomplish something or other, which is insane because if someone shows up to your door and asks to do your chores for free - most people would call the cops because that shit is creepy and unusual as hell and literally no one does that.

      Hell - even knocking on neighbours doors within the same apartment block without a reason is at least disturbing the peace and nuisance as well, they’d be well within their rights to call the cops, no one wants marketing shit, especially if it’s for some vague “community” shit. They’re gonna think I’m trying to sell them a pyramid scheme.

      You say “there’s a bit focus here on” and I dont understand what you mean, do you mean like by the government? Or are you saying regular people are somehow contributing? If so, how? And how are they organized? Like via one of those Facebook groups?

      Here, boomers use them to harass buskers and Starbucks workers deemed “gormless”.

      • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
        11·
        2 days ago

        50501 is a national protest movement here in the US. There is an individual chapter for every state. The chapter for my state has a ton of people involved in my city, and one of the things we’re doing is fostering community through events like block parties.

        Block parties are not “unsanctioned” lol

        I don’t know if they’re a thing in other countries, but here in the US, it’s become an official type of event. We work with the city, and close down streets to set up on the pavement, temporarily converting the road into a social space for everyone around. Local businesses come and do stalls, food trucks set up, local musicians perform, it’s great!